Edit: No, I was thinking of Zeeland. Zealand apparently is the English name for a Danish island.
Edit 2: While getting a pizza I wondered why the hell the English would call a place after a Danish island. So my first comment was correct after all. The Dutch named it after Zeeland.
For that matter where the hell is Old Zealand?
The Netherlands.
Edit: No, I was thinking of Zeeland. Zealand apparently is the English name for a Danish island.
Edit 2: While getting a pizza I wondered why the hell the English would call a place after a Danish island. So my first comment was correct after all. The Dutch named it after Zeeland.
To make it more fun, there’s always The Pincipality of Sealand as well.
Haha, yes. But with that I at least knew that it is on an old British sea fort from WWII. So that can’t be the reason for New Zealands name.
not with that attitude!
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I wrote that? Shit. My mistake.
No, you didn’t, but it made me wonder if there’s a new one where the old one is. Another person answered.